Pampa teams sweep 3-4A swim meet

Saturday

Jan 28, 2012 at 6:52 PM

For the second straight year, Pampa swept the team titles at the District 3-4A swimming meet Saturday at Lubbock’s Pete Ragus Aquatic Center.

Pampa won the boys team title with 170 points and the girls team title with 158 points. Pampa’s Spencer Estes was named the male swimmer of the meet, and Pampa’s Ed Garvin was named the girls coach of the year.

The only other winner from the Panhandle in the meet was Caprock sophomore Oakley Smith, who won two events. Smith lived up to her top seeds by taking home gold in two events. She won the 200 freestyle (2:29.11) and 100 butterfly (1:26.88) as the Caprock girls finished third with 81 points.

Estes, a senior, won the 50-yard freestyle in 23.65 seconds and the 100 backstroke (1:04.23). He also was part of Pampa’s victorious 200 and 400 free relay teams.

Other individual winners for the Pampa boys were seniors Karl Pfitzner in the 200 freestyle (2:10.43) and Nate Towry in the 500 freestyle (6:00.65), junior J.T. Brown in the 100 breaststroke (1:17.90), and freshman Dalton Hudson in the 100 butterfly.

For Pampa’s girls, senior Kendle Ramey and sophomore Morgan Graef each won two events. Ramey won the 500 freestyle (6:35.87) and 100 backstroke (1:12.03). Graef won the 200 individual medley (2:47.12) and 100 breaststroke (1:23.84).

In the District 2-5A meet at the same site, the best local showings were two second-place finishes by Amarillo High boys. Junior David Ballard was second in the 200 IM with a 2:06.14, only 0.04 of a second away from victory. Sophomore Michael Glover was runner-up in the 100 freestyle (50.81) and 100 backstroke (57.90). The AHS boys took third with 88 points.